Angelina Jolie defence love-rival Jennifer Aniston

Sydney, (ANI): Angelina Jolie has apparently defended Jennifer Aniston after the former Friends star was slammed by a US television host, Bill O'Reilly over her comments on motherhood.

Entertainment website Popeater has quoted a friend of Jolie defending Aniston and her views on single parents. Jolie was herself raised in a single-parent household and adopted her first child, Maddox, on her own.

"She agrees with Jennifer that a woman doesn't need a man to start a family to be a good mother," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted columnist Rob Shuter as stating. "For Bill to take issue with this statement is him taking issue with every single parent in the world," Shuter added.